DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SEMINAR disc.ece.illinois.edu/disc-seminar.php
(TELE-SEMINAR)
Algorithms for Smartphone Peer-to-Peer Networks
Prof. Calvin Newport
Georgetown University
10:30 am
November 3, 2017 (Friday)
239 CSL
ABSTRACT:
The smartphones most people now carry in their pocket are powerful networking devices. In addition to their well-known ability to connect to cell towers and base stations, they also provide increasingly stable support for making device-to-device connections that do not require any infrastructure. This opens the interesting question of whether or not useful distributed systems can be built on top these local device-to-device connections -- enabling networking without the need for infrastructure. In this talk, I'll explore this question through the perspective of distributed algorithm theory. In particular, I'll first provide a clean abstraction that captures the basic properties of this new technology, then use this abstraction to design and analyze new distributed algorithms for core communication primitives.
BIO:
Cal Newport is a Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Georgetown University. He studies the theory of distributed systems.